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By DAVID TEAGUE
HOUGH labor leaders say that the
success of the Amalgamated Clothing
, and Textiles Union in gaining a two and
a half year contract with J. P. Stevens & Co. will
give them more of a foothold in North
Carolina, other experts disagree on what effect
it will have on the state.
Dan Pollitt, a UNC law professor, said the
changing regional workforce, which includes
many blacks and women, will lead to further
unionization. However, Ed Rogers, associate
professor of economics at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, does not feel that
Southern workers are that anxious to unionize.
Pollitt said he thought more unionization
was ahead for North Carolina because "there is
nowhere to go except up."
"The number and percentage of union
members in this state is at the bottom," he
said. "We're an industrial state, yet our
workers are the poorest paid in the country."
Pollitt also said the advantage to having
more unionization would be that workers will
not be entirely at the mercy of their bosses and
they will have a greater sense of pride. "It
would also increase the payroll and provide
better seniority programs," he said.
Rogers said the economic status of the
country will discourage many Southern
workers from fighting for unionization at this
time.
"It will lead workers not to want to
jeopardize employment right now," Rogers
said. "Also, the textile industry is not at its best
right now." .
Rogers said that most N.C. workers were
satisfied with their jobs if they were satisfied
with the companies they worked for. He also
said that most Southern workers were
suspicious of outside influence from other
areas of the country.
The contract agreed on by Stevens and the
union was voted on Aug. 19 by Stevens'
workers who were members of the union. The
vote was unanimous. The decision ended 17
years of battles betweeen Stevens, a leader in
southern industrial resistance to unionization,
and the union.
Under the provisions of the contract,
Stevens will offer the contract to any of its
plants that vote to unionize in the next year
and a half. The union will end its five-year
boycott of Stevens' products. Both sides also
agreed to drop many of the labor-law cases
involving Stevens that are pending before the
National Labor Relations Board. Stevens has
been cited 23 times for labor law violations.
Both professors said that futher
unionization in North Carolina would be a
long-term project. Q
David league is a staff writer for The Daily Tar
Heel.
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